I used to religiously buy a Sunday newspaper. Yesterday Mrs Bard went shopping and came back with a free copy. I wondered if anyone was left who had the time to trawl through such a weighty tome. There were three magazines, numerous sections and more inserts than you could count. You’d need a whole row of budgie cages to use up this lot…
I looked at the Sunday papers,
There’s very little news,
An awful lot of filler,
And someone else’s views!
What a mess around the world,
Syria and Iraq,
A murder suspects body,
Found hanging in a park.
Polititian’s U-turns,
That’s no news to us,
There are by-elections coming,
The polls will make a fuss!
Someone’s marriage is over,
Someone’s in the dock,
A Bishop is an adulterer,
Someone’s wife he did defrock!
An actor is now married,
The world’s press were there,
Leading to a question,
Do we really care?
Pages of irrelevant words,
With opinion by the score,
Will the paper become extinct?
It looks like a dinosaur.
© Baldock Bard 2014
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